Abstract:The goal of question categorization is to classify natural language questions that user raised into predefined categories. How to classify question sentences accurately and efficiently is an important task in community question answering. In this study, we propose a question categorization method based on deep neural network. Firstly, the words of the question are transformed to vectors. Then, we use a novel Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model with attention mechanism to capture the most important features in a question. Finally, the features are fed into the classifier to predict the category of the question. We use the Bi-LSTM and CNN to capture the features of question because of their benefits in representing sentence level documents. We also use the answer set to enrich the information of the question. The experimental results on several datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.